Today's headlines for August 14

I mean, that's going to affect us tremendously. I mean, if things bump up 50%, that means we have to add on 50%. We've got to put it on to the customer, and that's just going to push everything else up. For the past year and a half, the Trump administration has aggressively tariffed Canada. But after the Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump didn't have the authority to impose certain tariffs by executive order, the government had to refund around $100 billion. Now it's imposing new tariffs under a different provision that had never been used before by a U.S. president. Across the border in Canada, Hank Vetter is a sales manager at the Wood Source, a lumber business in Ottawa that ships 60% of its product to the U.S. He says the threat of these tariffs alone already impacts his U.S. customers like home builders and contractors. They say, hey, if that 50% is coming in, I need to do one of two things. I'm going to either order today before the tariffs kick in. or then I'm going to wait until there's relief in those tariffs. Vetter says these tariffs are causing a domino effect, raising import costs on specific items, which then pushes companies to raise all of their prices. So then that affects the contractor because he's trying to get this house built on time for his customer. And then that affects the supply chain because if the contractor is not ordering the material, then the supply chain is weakened. These new tariffs cover a slew of items coming out of Canada. Everything from chandeliers to ice Bill Gates to dairy and alcohol. Amy Magnus is a customs broker based in St. Albans, Vermont, and helps businesses calculate tariffs when shipping across the border. She says she's never seen anything like this before in her 40 years of experience. I am telling my customers, please check the list and see if you have any products. that appear on those lists. You do have, let's say, all these shipments of ice case that you want to bring into the United States, bring them in right now. Tourism and cross-border traffic between the two countries have dropped dramatically in the North Country since Trump started imposing new tariffs in his second term. Magnus says she's concerned that these new heightened tariffs will deepen a wound between Canada and the U.S. In Canton, I'm Richard Haller for the New York Public News Network. Domestic violence survivors say there are important lessons to learn from the allegations against Ohio Congressman Max Miller. Miller's ex-wife alleges that he physically abused her on multiple occasions. Miller has denied that, arguing that his ex-wife would cook him dinner and then send him loving text messages during these times of alleged violence. Jerry Lynn Sparks is a survivor and the author of a book called Surviving Mad Men. She joined WXXI's connections with Evan Dawson discussing why survivors don't always behave the way that others might expect.

You go to a scene of a fire and you think you put out the fire. And then later at night, people are in bed and an ember catches fire. It's the same thing with domestic violence. You become so acclimated to things that are threatening to you that you don't have a visceral reaction. You do survival mode. You have to keep the peace. It makes perfect sense. It's not something that he can, Representative Miller, can say, it wouldn't make sense for her to cook me dinner. It makes perfect sense. For my own example, I was being, and my children were being subjected to a year of verbal outburst, but nothing physical. And I would call a lawyer. I would call the police, and they would say menacing is hard to prove. There was nothing you could do. It's really hard to prove unless there's been physical evidence of physical violence. And so I learned how to walk on eggshells. I remember going down the Massachusetts Turnpike on the way to a cottage in Maine for a beach vacation. And I had my kids in the car and my ex-husband was driving. We were still married. And he got mad because my middle child wanted to buy a little souvenir and a souvenir shop. and just began screaming and driving erratically on the road and said, I will kill us all. Then we get to the beach, and I'm trapped in the car. We're all trapped in the car. And he acted like nothing had happened. I was trapped there for a week, trying to keep the peace, just not doing anything to further escalate him. So survivors of domestic violence are just that. They're savvy. They're survivors. They know what they need to do to stay safe and to keep their children safe. You can listen to this full conversation on our website, WXXXI News.org slash connections. The city of Rochester is looking to put nearly a million dollars into building out infrastructure at Parcel 5. Here's WXXI's Gino Finnelli to explain the plans. Parcel 5 was named a permanent green space by Mayor Malik Evans in 2024 that followed years of calls from community advocates to preserve the space. The former site of Midtown Plaza is used for festivals, farmers markets, and a variety of other community events. The first phase of work will include electrical improvements, Wi-Fi, security cameras, and hydrants. The city plans to borrow over $600,000 for the amenities. Future plans for the site include a digital marquee, fencing, and a permanent storage space for stage equipment. Rochester City Council stayed to vote on legislation authorizing the borrowing later this month. Gino Finnelli, WXXI News. A New York State lawmaker and environmental groups are holding a week-long tour to organize opposition to data centers in the Empire State. State Senator Kristen Gonzalez is a Queens Democrat. She will travel to Buffalo, the Finger Lakes, and the Stamp Industrial Park in Genesee County. Developers have proposed server farms in these communities. Eric Weltman is with the advocacy group Food and Water Watch, which is co-sponsoring the tour.

The explosion of data centers is one of the worst affordability and environmental threats facing New York. Supporters of the projects say they generate construction jobs and are necessary for the innovation of economy. Gonzalez wants Governor Kathy Hochul to sign a broad moratorium on data center development. The Democratic governor did issue an executive order pausing that development. The Rochester community is mourning the death of renowned Frederick Douglas scholar and storyteller David Anderson. He was 96 years old. Anderson is a longtime educator who is possibly best known as a historian working to preserve the legacy of Frederick Douglass here in Rochester. Also for leading the Rochester Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission. Anderson received many accolades over his years, including the New York State Liberty Medal in 2022, the highest civilian honor in the state, awarded for lifetime achievement and exceptional community acts. School number 16 in the 19th Ward was also named after him and his wife, Ruth Anderson, a longtime RCSD schoolteacher.

Young athletes face more opportunity and pressure than ever before as they pursue college careers in the sports they love. As WXXI's Noelle Evans reports, that is why at one local camp, they're teaching basketball as just the beginning. This is my group right here. The sun is blazing on a breezy summer morning. Oh, all right. 50 mountain climbers, full speed ahead up top. About 30 teens are making their way up and down a hill between tennis courts and a softball field at Nazareth University. Make sure you breathing. This is Hoopin'Halla summer basketball camp. Ethmar Robinson, or Coach Freeze, is one of the trainers here. Training the heart rate, the muscles all at the same time. All the things that the kids aren't used to it. It shocks the nervous system. Therefore, they have to grow. They have to have growth spurts. And more importantly, when they get on the court, they actually feel it. But this camp goes beyond physical training. We teach leadership. We teach financial literacy, nutrition, mental health. We're teaching the kids. Be yourself. Be the best you. And for some teens, that message comes at an important time. Since 2021, college athletes have been able to profit off NIL or name image likeness deals. And that means kids who aren't old enough to graduate high school are navigating agents and sponsorship opportunities and everything that comes with it. One of the campers is 16-year-old David Johnson. ESPN ranks him fifth in the nation for the class of 2029. And he's been playing basketball for about three years. Honestly, I really just let my game talk for me. Really, the game found him, really. And that's his dad, Zaviar Johnson. You know, I caught him in his room watching old Scotty Pippin videos and old Chicago Bulls videos and players that's not around anymore in the middle of the night up to like midnight. He says it's David's consistency on his jump shots, his range, and his game IQ that makes him stand out. David says it's his hair. A lot of people know me as my fro. I just started growing up a past, like, the year now. Whatever the reason, people took notice. Nike posted a clip of him during a tournament, and then the attention and enticing sponsorship deals started rolling in. At first, it was really confusing. We tried to take everything all at once, so it was kind of hectic. This is exactly the kind of thing that Coach Mitchell Harris works to prepare families and athletes for. Historically, what you do is you deprive people so long, and then you put crumbs in front of them because they never had anything, they love the crumbs. The camp is part of a larger program through the city's recreation centers that is set up to address this. Coaches work with teens and their families throughout the year to keep up on grades and learn how to navigate the business side of basketball so they don't get taken advantage of. We make sure our parents are well aware of the pitfalls, and we always tell them, stay away from the word perpetuity. With success comes other new challenges. Harris says they also offer philosophical guidance for how athletes can live their lives going forward. What I fear is, and one of the things you want to try to steer them away from is living a selfish life. Living a life where your values are about.

attaining things individually instead of having an impact on others. For the Johnson's, things got a lot more organized when David signed with the agency, Rock Nation. But the real opportunities are not about endorsement deals or partnership agreements. Obviously, as his father, I'm just happy to see him happy and thrive in something that he enjoys. For him, his mind mentality is to make it to the league and not only make it to the league, but to be a positive role model. in that space for many Muslim Americans who are kind of underrepresented in that space or may not feel comfortable disclosing their religion, but he wants to be like an advocate for everybody, really. And for David, there's pride in coming from Rochester, New York. We definitely create a lot of dogs, you know. It's not really, we don't have an actual, like, team or good college to go to or work towards, so it's really just get out of the month. from the bottom. Noelle Evans, WXXI News. If you head down to Clarissa Street this Saturday and see a vibrant gathering with thousands of people, food and music, don't call it a festival. It is a reunion. The Clarissa Street reunion returns for its 28th year this weekend as a celebration welcoming the black community back to where their history had been uprooted decades before. I spoke with the organizers about ensuring that history is never forgotten. Making room to get bigger and brighter. The Clarissa Street reunion will return to Rochester in grand form as both a reminder of the past and a welcome to the future. Extending even further down Clarissa Street this year, there will be three stages, a gospel stage at Clarissa and Adams Street. an R&B stage at the intersection with Dr. Samuel McCree-Way. And finally, the jazz stage will sit at the corner of Clarissa and Troop, the former site of the historic pithod room. The legendary jazz club was one of many black businesses torn down between the late 1950s and 1970s when the third ward urban renewal project displaced nearly 900 families in what is now the Corn Hill neighborhood. It was primarily an African-American. Black-owned businesses, community that was uprooted. And, you know, lots of children, young people, even adults, don't know that it existed. That is Renee Long, president of Clarissa Street Legacy. Eminent domain happens, but what happens to the people? You know, we understand that our history is not just those buildings. It's about the people that inhabited this space. Long says there is a lot to celebrate this year. The Pithod Room entered the 2026 Rochester Music Hall of Fame. They made a new comic book to engage young people to learn local black history, and they're working on a permanent home for the Clarissa Uprooted exhibit at the local library.

Rochester's Dominican community is celebrating its culture this weekend as well. The fourth annual Dominican Day takes place Sunday at the International Plaza. Here's WXXXI's Jose Sandoval with a preview. Festival organizers expect thousands of people to attend Dominican Day for music, food, culture, and pride. Jessica Del Valle is a member of Dominican Day Committee. She says attendees will learn more about Dominican culture in Rochester. We're going to have an opportunity to celebrate together the contributions of the Dominican community. You'll get to learn more of Latinos and Dominicans in the area. And it's, you know, it's a great opportunity for us to celebrate traditions and more important to connect different generations. Del Valle also adds that attendees can expect culture performances, Dominican food, and much more. Jose San Naval, WXXI News. Today's weather forecast for Rochester and the Finger Lakes. A beautiful day, full of sunshine in the occasional clouds offering shade. The high temp will stay below 80, maintaining a high in the 70s. A clear, cool night in the 50s means you may just catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower. It's going on for a few more days, and it was certainly too cloudy yesterday to get a glimpse. Subscribe to the WXXXI Daily News podcast to get the latest news every morning together with me on the weekdays. Always read up more stories at WXXXI News.org. Thank you so much for sharing your day and hopefully you're week with me and have a happy Friday.